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Chapter Six: Pass and Stow
The sun starts to rise and Ben looks around for a place to park so they could buy new clothes. Abi looks at Riley and Ana and smiles. Ana has her head resting on his shoulder sound asleep and Riley had his head resting on her with his arm around her waist. They look so peaceful together and Abi starts to wonder if they are getting feelings for each other.
"Well, I gotta wake them up." Abi says to her self.
She gets out of the car and opens the back door and shakes Riley and Ana awake.
"C'mon guys, get up." Abi says softly.
Ana wakes up and takes a moment to really wake up and then she notices that Riley has his arm around her and she starts to blush. Riley wakes up and notices and he quickly takes his arm away and blushes slightly. "Sorry." he mumbles.
Ana smiles at him, "It's fine."
She gets out of the car and looks around to see they are in front of a clothing shop. Ben is standing there and Abi walks over next to him. Riley stands next to Ana.
"Okay, we're going to get new clothes. You guys take this, "Ben says handing them the piece of paper with the Ottendorf cipher on it, 'And head to the Franklin Institute. Meet us back here when you guys figure it out."
Riley and Ana nod and walk off as Ben and Abi go to get their new clothes.
:.30 Minutes Later.:
Riley and Ana are sitting on a bench waiting for the kids they are paying to get help get the clue to come back.
"Whose idea was this?" Ana groans.
"Yours." Riley replies with a slight sigh.
Ana just glares at him and he gives her a proud smiles. Just then the little boy comes back and hands Ana the post-it.
"I got P-A-S-S and A-N-D." he says.
Riley writes it down on a newspaper.
"No, it's an 'N'" the kids says as Riley was writing down 'and'.
"That is an 'n'."He replies back.
The kids raises an eyebrow.
"It doesn't look like one." Ana says and Riley glares at her.
Ana gives him an innocent smile and he just sighs in an annoyed way.
"You know what? Here. Last one. Okay? One more dollar," says Riley giving the kid a dollar.
"Thank you," says the kid taking the dollar.
"Go get the last 4 letters. Go get 'em, chief. Come on," says Riley to the kid giving him another yellow post-it note.
Ana looks at him and smiles. He just gives her a look, "What?"
"No matter how annoying i get, you'll always love me." she replies happily.
Riley smiles and shakes his head.
Yes I will. He thinks to him self.
"Okay. Here's what I've got: 'The vision to see the treasured past, comes as the timely shadow passes in front of the house of pass and'...something. That's all I have. Pass and what?" says Riley.
Ana thinks. She thinks of all the American History she knows that has to do with 'Pass'. Riley is in deep thought. A bus stops in front of them with the Liberty Bell.
LIGHT BULB!
"Pass and stow!" Ana nearly yells causing some people to look at them but she doesn't care.
"You are a Genius!" Riley says hugging her an standing up.
"Let's go get Ben." he says.
Ana smiles and looks across the street. Uh-oh.
"Riley we might want to run." she says walking up besides him.
"Why?" he asks a little confused.
"Because Ian's here." With that they ran back to where Ben and Abi.
They quickly go up the stairs to the store an find Abi and Ben buying their clothes.
"Hey." Riley says as the walk up to them.
"Hey, did you get it?" Ben asks excitedly.
"Yes. 'The vision to see the treasured past, comes as the timely shadow passes in front of the house of pass and stow'." Ana says to them remembering the clue.
'Now, Pass and Stow referring to the-" Riley get cuts off.
"The Liberty Bell." Ben and Abi says at the same time and go into deep thought.
"Why do you have to do that?" Riley asks a little annoyed.
'Because they're know-it-alls?" Ana whispers back to him. Riley nods in agreement.
"Well, John Pass and John Stow cast the bell," says Abigail.
"Okay. Well, then, what does the rest of this mean?" asks Riley.
Ben starts pacing a little.
"Wait, the vision to see the treasured past, must refer to a way to read the map," says Ben.
Ana rolls her eye, "Really?"
Ben just gives her 'THE Look.'
"I thought the cipher was the map," says Riley.
"No, the cipher was a way to find the way to read the map," Ana explains.
"Exactly," says Ben.
"And the way to read the map can be found where the timely shadow crosses in front of the Liberty Bell," Abi says stepping a little closer to Ben which causes Ana to make a weird look and Riley laughs a little at this.
"Crosses in front of the house of the Liberty Bell. Independence Hall," says Ben.
"Right, so timely shadow...it's a specific time," Abi says also thinking about it.
"Uh, what time?" Ana and Riley ask.
"What time? What time? Wait, wait, you're going to love this," Ben says very excitedly to Abigail, "Excuse me, can I see one of those hundred dollar bills I paid you with?" he asks the cashier.
"No," she says giving Ben a suspicious look.
"Well, uh, I have this diver's watch. It's called a submariner. I dive with it. It's actually quite valuable. You can use it as collateral," says Ben taking off his watch and handing it to the cashier.
"Whatever," she says and takes the watch.
"Thank you," says Ben.
"Some one has a stick up their ass." Ana mumbles.
Riley stifles a laugh as this one.
Ben turns to face Abi.
"On the back of the hundred-dollar bill is an etching on Independence Hall, based on a painting..." Ben starts to say.
"Hello," the cashier interrupts handing him the bill.
"Thank you," he says to her and continues without skipping a beat, "in the 1780's, who and the artist was actually a friend of Benjamin Franklin's. It's wonderful," says Ben to the cashier.
"Fascinating," says the cashier, but not very interested.
"Bitch." Ana silently coughs but only got Riley elbowing her side.
"Hold this," Ben says passing the container with the Declaration to Abi.
"Okay," she says going to sling it over her shoulder.
Ben pulls it back and looks at her.
"I'm not going anywhere," she says.
They smile at each other. Ana and Riley both roll their eyes. They just want to get this over with.
"Now, I think that if we look at this clock tower, we may find the specific time," says Ben flipping the bill over and picking up one of the water bottles sitting on the counter.
Ben holds the water bottle to magnify the back of the bill so he can see the clock.
"What do you see?" Abi asks looking over his shoulder.
"2:22," replies Ben.
'Well, what time is it now?" Ana asks.
"Almost 3," says the cashier looking at Ben's watch that she was holding.
Ben looks at Riley, Ana and then at Abi.
"We missed it," Abi whines slightly.
"No, we didn't," says Riley looking to Ben, "We didn't miss it because...uh...you don't know this? I-I know something about history that you don't," gloats Riley.
"I'd be very excited to learn about it, Riley," says Ben, flatly.
"Well, hold on a second, let me just..." Riley relaxes his body and takes a breath, "let me just take in this moment. This is...this is cool," he says looking around, "Is this how you feel all the time? Because, you know...except for now, of course," he says looking back at Ben.
Ben gives him a weird look and Abigail looks pretty annoyed. Ana slightly glaring at him, ready to punch him.
"Riley!" Abi and Ana yell at him.
Ben looks from Abi and Ana to Riley.
"Alright. What I know is that daylight savings wasn't established until World War I. If it's 3 PM now, okay, that means in 1776, it would be 2 pm," says Riley.
"Let's go." Abi says walking off with Ben hot on her heels after exchanging the cashier the bill for his watch.
"Riley, you're a genius!" Ana squeals and kissed his cheek and catches up with the two.
Riley stands there for a second and catches up with his friends.
"Do you who the first person was to suggest Day Light Saving's time?" Riley asks.
"Benjamin Franklin." Abi, Ben and Ana replies at the same time.
Riley stomps his foot on the ground in defeat.
Hope you all enjoyed this one. So, yeah. if you spot those mistake let me know and tell me where they are so i can fix them. Thank you fo reading adn review please!
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